Sr. Engineering Manager, CAMP

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At Pinterest AI isnt just a feature its a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact and were looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities well explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

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Pinterest is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead the Content Acquisition & Media Platform (CAMP) team. The CAMP team owns the critical platforms for content acquisition media ingestion and media signal processing. The team closely collaborates with multiple partner teams bringing the most inspiration content to Pinterest to enhance the content foundation of all products adopting LLM/VLM in a near real-time system to understand content and build fundamental signals for LLM innovations and standing in the frontier to meet GenAI compliance requirements.

What youll do:

• Lead a cross-platform team responsible for content acquisition media ingestion and media signal platform.
• Set the teams technical direction and drive execution on quality performance and reliability
• Partner closely with Content Shopping catalog and GenAI teams to improve Pinterest content ecosystem.
• Guide the team through platform and architectural decisions balancing product needs technical investments and long-term maintainability.
• Build and grow a high-performing team through hiring coaching and developing engineers.
• Raise the bar on engineering excellence through strong operational practices performance measurement testing and release quality.
• Help Pinterest to meet GenAI compliance requirements
• Thoughtfully leverage AI tools to speed up design coding debugging and documentation while applying your own critical thinking to validate outputs and explain how you used AI in your workflow.
• Shape our AI-assisted engineering practices by sharing patterns guardrails and learnings with the team so we can safely increase our impact without compromising code quality reliability or candidate expectations.

What were looking for:

• 9 years of software engineering experience including distributed system and big data platform
• 5 years of engineering management experience leading strong client or platform engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of crawling system media ingestion understanding and management big data process.
• Familiarity with search and recommendation system GenAI compliance.
• A track record of delivering meaningful improvements to product experience system performance or engineering efficiency.
• Ability to lead work across platforms and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners.
• Clear communication skills strong technical judgment and a people-focused leadership approach.
• Experience using AI coding assistants and agentic tools as a force-multiplier and equally comfortable solving problems from first principles when those tools arent available.

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means were not always working in an office but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1 time a week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices Palo Alto San Francisco Seattle

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